Today is a great day for a wave riddle! Below you see a picture I took on my walk home the other day. Can you tell what caused those waves? (Solution underneath the picture!) In the picture above, we are looking at the curb and the lid of a drain. There are two ring-shaped waves radiating […]
And we are wave watching again! A ship’s wake and the different zones within Here is the wake of the little ferry that goes across Kiel canal. I love how you can see the different parts that a wake consists of: The V with the ship at its tip that consists of wavelets from the […]
Back by popular demand: Reading the water in my mystery pictures series! Who knows what’s going on in the picture below? You might recognize a couple of details that might give you a hint: There are waves parallel to the rope and drops of water falling from the rope. And here is what happened: A […]
